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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54010	Invisible realities, the real Christian's greatest concernment in several sermons on 2 Cor. 4. 18 / by Henry Pendlebury ...	Pendlebury, Henry, 1626-1695.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1140; ESTC R6886	66,843	144

end of his Sickness it pleased his Heavenly Father to visit him with a complication of painful Distempers under all the Tortures of which he yet glorified God with great Patience and expressed his Hope of his future Blessedness saying I am not sick unto Death but unto Eternal Life He would often say In a little while all will be well As to the Estate and Condition of his Soul he expressed himself to some Friends thus I can now look back upon my Way and Work in the Ministry and say I have been Faithful and I can look within and say I have Peace but after all the bottom I would fix on is Christ and his Righteousness I would make him all in all When his Body was brought exceeding low yet he would be left alone sometimes in the Day as was concluded that he might with less distraction enjoy Communion with God in secret Prayer and Meditation A little before he died some of his Hearers coming to him and inquiring of him how he did he said I long after your Spiritual and Soul-Welfare He departed this Life the 18th of June 1695. about eight of the Clock in the Morning and in the 70th Year of his Age. His pious Soul which through the whole Course of his Life had been bent towards God did shew her readiness and preparedness for the full and eternal Fruition by the sweet and ardent Breathings which it had that Night and Morning after him which were often expressed in these words Father come and take me Home to thy self His Body was interred in Bury Church-Yard being the Parish Church where he lived close by the Chancel-Wall on the South side June 20. Anno Dom. 1695. A vast Concourse of People appeared at the Funeral and made great Lamentation over him the Reverend Mr. Robert Seddon of Bolton preached the Funeral Sermon at Mr. Pendlebury's own Chappel The Subject of his Discourse was in the 12th of Daniel and the 13th Verse But go thou thy way till the End be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy Lot at the end of the Days Thus have we sorrowfully brought to the Grave this excellent Minister of Christ who was truly a Nathaniel an Israelite indeed a Gracious Humble Meek-spirited Christian that lived as he preached and preached as he believed his exact Life was an accurate Comment on his Doctrine his Doctrine was sound and Scriptural he was a solid judicious Divine that throughly studied what he preached he was not forward in speaking but what was wanting in Number was made up in Ponderousness of words they had all their full weight He was beloved of all and reverenced especially by Brethren in the Ministry and his People whom he laboured and spent himself for about 44 Years who will be ready to say of his Worth what the Queen of Sheba said of Solomon's Wisdom That the one half thereof is not here publish'd to the World Invisible Realities the Real Christians greatest Concernment SERMON I. 2 Cor. 4.18 While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal THE blessed Apostle having described the great Sufferings and grievous Persecutions which the Corinthians had endured and were enduring for the Gospel's sake in the 8 9 10 11 Verses of this Chapter proceeds in the following Verses to annex the Grounds of their Patience Confidence Constancy and Consolation in all the Pressures they went under And these may be reduced to two Heads two things bore them up and bore them out under all First A certain Hope and Expectation of a glorious Resurrection to Everlasting Life after all the ignominious Sufferings of this Life Ver. 13 14. We having the same Spirit of Faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you As if he had said this is our Corroboration and our Consolation the Assurance that we have of a happy Resurrection by this we are kept from sinking under Discouragements while we are alway delivered unto Death Ver. 11. The 15th Verse contains a Reason of his Confidence of being the Companion of the believing Corinthians after his many Sufferings for as much as they were endured for their Good and the Glory of God For all things are for your sakes that the abundant Grace might through the Thanksgiving of many redound to the Glory of God This is the first Ground of the Apostle's Constancy and Comfort ver 16. For which Cause we faint not but though our outward Man perish yet the inward Man is renewed day by day i. e. upon the confident Hope of Eternal Life we faint not knowing this that he which hath raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also c. 2. The Perswasion and Assurance they were settled in that they should not be losers by the Sufferings and Afflictions which they were enduring But that they should all tend and turn 1. To their present Good 2. To their future Glory 1. To their present Good Though our outward Man perish that is we faint not for this Cause as knowing that while our Bodies with all those things that tend to the maintaining and adorning of this present Life as Health and Wealth and Credit fall into decay and moulder away by the various Tribulations we are crushed under yet our inward Man to wit our Souls or our spiritual Estate is renewed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made new again day by day is daily restored more and more to its primitive Form and Beauty So that we are not losers but gainers by our Sufferings if we lose our Externals lose our Health and lose our Strength and lose our Peace and lose our Liberty and lose our Livelyhood yet all this loss is not without a Compensation we have it made up we have it recompensed with Internals and things of Eternal Concernment Our outward Losses are recompensed with inward Gain the decay of our temporal Good compensated with the augmentation of spiritual Grace while the things of Earth are going from us the things of Heaven come into the room of them 2. To their future Glory ver 17. as they were tending to their present Good so they turned to their future Glory ver 17. For our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Here the Apostle shows 1. What their Afflictions were now 1. They were light 2. Short 2. What they wrought Now these light and short Afflictions which are but for a moment work for us 1. Glory 2. A weight of Glory 3. An exceeding weight of Glory 4. A far more exceeding weight of Glory 5. A far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory So that here is a threefold most